Honorary Doctors

Honorary Doctor 2016

Hubert Cuyckens,

Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Leuven, Belgium is an internationally known researcher in the field of cognitive linguistics – a branch of linguistics that sees language as an integral part of human cognitive capacity – and historical linguistics.

He is also interested in grammaticalisation, the language change process that creates new grammatical words (prepositions, conjunction) or bending elements (verb flexion).